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Wildfires in Upper West Region

Upper West Region, Ghana: 130 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 11 districts since 2016, burning 566,442 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sissala East in 22 December 2025, with 63,834 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 51).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
566,442ha
Since 2016
Of the region
29%
19,611 km²
fires
130
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 11
Largest fire
63,834ha
Sissala East · 22 December 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 High 38° · 20 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Extreme 36° · 24 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 16 High 37° · 26 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very high 38° · 13 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very extreme 37° · 8 % · 40 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very extreme 37° · 9 % · 40 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very extreme 38° · 10 % · 41 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very extreme 37° · 12 % · 42 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Sissala East 401,098 ha · 78 %
  2. Sissala West 103,862 ha · 50 %
  3. Wa East 33,941 ha · 7.8 %
  4. Daffiama Bussie Issa 16,079 ha · 11 %
  5. Lambussie-Karni 7,465 ha · 9.1 %
  6. Nadowli-Kaleo 2,584 ha · 2.3 %
  7. Jirapa 1,412 ha · 1.2 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (2,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
2026525,081 Sissala East 10,597 ha
202529185,350 Sissala East 63,834 ha
2024937,558 Sissala West 8,219 ha
20231139,018 Sissala West 6,585 ha
20221341,431 Daffiama Bussie Issa 7,910 ha
20211343,384 Sissala East 13,254 ha
20201165,880 Sissala East 26,508 ha
2019843,635 Sissala East 13,206 ha
2018716,716 Sissala East 3,818 ha
20171437,860 Sissala East 5,804 ha
20161030,528 Sissala East 6,837 ha

All fires in Upper West Region · 130

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Street Map (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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